Teaching Toward Freedom
Subtitle: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: September 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780807032688
Subjects: Education; Theory Of Education; Education / Teaching; United States; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Education / General; Moral and ethical aspects; Teachers; Teaching
First sentence: The allure of teaching, that ineffable magic drawing me back to the classroom again and again, issues from an ideal that lies directly at its heart: Teaching, at its best, is an enterprise that helps human beings reach the full measure of their humanity.
Description: "In Teaching Toward Freedom Ayers illuminates the hope as well as the conflict that characterize the entire project of education: how it can be used in authoritarian and dehumanizing ways in the service of the state, the church, or a restrictive existing social order - an idea he abhors - or, as he envisions it, as an undertaking to help students become more fully human, more engaged, more participatory, more free. Drawing on his own classroom experiences and those of his many colleagues, as well as on popular culture, film, poetry, and novels, Ayers redraws the lines concerning how we teach and why, and the surprising things we uncover when we allow students to become visible, vocal authors of their own texts and creators of their own lives."--BOOK JACKET.